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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1944)
liliilllinlllilllllliinilinmiHiiiwiiiimmiimimmiimiiimiiiimimimimiimmimiimiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiuimiiuimmiHmmmmiitiimimiii. Dregon® Emerald MARJORIE M. GOODWIN EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG •Managing Editor GLORIA MALLOY Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors EDITORIAL BOARD Betty Ann Stevens Edith Newton Mary Jo Geiser Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Executive Secretary Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens Warren Miller, Army Editor Co-Women’s Editors Bob Stiles. Sports Editor Betty French Robertson, Chief Night Editor Mary Jo Geiser, Staff Photographer Elizabeth Haugen, Assistant Managing Editor Published daily during the oollege year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. BejpJie the. 3>ecidjo*t . . . At the time this is "written, no election returns have been received. What is said here will not be altered when they are received. This is an accounting, and an adding up of political actions on this campus, and the way in which they relate to next year’s campaigns, and to the future actions of students when they actually become citizens. The final laps of the ASUO campaign have evidenced such bad taste, and such hasty judgment that comment should be made, so that students may realize they cannot behave in like manner when they do become citizens. The writing, printing, and distribution of the pink sheet at tacking one candidate and her support illustrates an extreme which would never be tolerated under the laws of the state. The law reads this way, “It shall be unlawful to write, print or circulate or cause to be -circulated through the mails or otherwise any letter, circular, bill, placard, poster or other publication relating to any election or to -any candidate at any election, unless the same shall bear on its face the name and address of the author and of the printer and publisher thereof; anl any person writing, printing, publishing, circulating, post" ing or causing to be written, printed, circulated, posted or pub lished any such letter, bill, placard, circular, poster or other publication, as aforesaid, which fails to bear on its face the name and address of the author, and of the printer or publisher thereof, shall be guilty of an illegal practice . . The penalties are stiff. * * * * Nothing more needs to be said on that score. The indictment is plain enough. Heading the law, perhaps those students re sponsible, whoever they arc, and those who permitted such actions will realize the mistake they made. But what next, since the soldier voting issue was dragged in at the last minute purely on political grounds and not on any sincere desire that soldiers should vote, and since bad taste and emotionalism held sway in a particularly virulent form? * * * * This has been a dirty election to end all dirty elections. And the Kmerald must go on record now, before the results are in, as saying that if happenings similar to those which occured over the- weekend and in the last two days are repeated next year, some University students need not wonder why they are not respected and regarded as adult-minded people. However, the lesson has undoubtedly been learned. The in coming president and her council, the class officers who take over at the Thursday installation assembly, and the students who voted this time must remember that name-calling never made a healthy student body, and that so-called “smart poli tics," however persuasive at the polls, do not foster progress in student affairs.—M.M.ti. <Jie Came teach . . . Twenty-three lonely Oregon guys sat in a morbid row on the iron rail fence around the main quad on the l'ordham I'ni versit\ campus in New York a couple of months ago and griped. 1'licy griped about being 3,000 miles from the UO cam pus; they griped about no women; and they wished, oh, how they w ished, they were back here on the campus "even for a little while.” One of those guys got his wish this weekend. The army came through w ith the legendary 15-day furlough and he made tracks for the west coast. One of the first things he did was to write as many of the other twenty-two as he could and tell them all about the campus and how things were, and maybe he even gloated just a little. Anyway, this is about what he said after a year awav from the campus. Of course, it looks the same, guys, but it’s not. There seems to be something kind of lacking. 1 guess it’s being egotistical, but 1 think that thing is men. Oh, there are some air corps JletieM. to- the £dito>i April 25, 1944 To the Editor: It seems to me that any bloc or part of a bloc which professes sup posed choice by merit are defeat ing- their very purpose by publish ing a slanderous and libellous pam phlet such as the “Demerit De bunker.’’ We have freedom of the press, why should we abuse it by publish ing a paper so personally depre ciating a candidate and setting forth the issues Greek vs. Indepen dent as a way to vote? The “De merit Debunker” made me ashamed of being on the campus that published it. The cowardly anonymous editors of the pamphlet accuse Audrey Holliday of tyranny, they sling large phrases of dictatorship and totalitarianism at her merely to hide their own tyranny. Why should underclassmen on the cam pus, most of them ignorant of the issues and the candidates, be rail roaded by their political leaders into voting a ticket they know nothing about ? What is that if not tyranny? I believe that a certain amount of it has been done on both sides. But anything as per sonally insulting, even blasphemous as the “Demerit Debunker” should not be tolerated by any one who truthfully believes in individual rights. I believe that freedom to think as one believes and to form an opinion about an issue in demo cratic government without being higli-pressured into it is vital to a free nation. As Nancy Ames said, how can we expect to enter na tional politics with a free, open mind and think for ourselves if we have been told point blank how to vote every time? Why do we call voting democratic if people can't vote as they believe? Wc are told that voting a certain ticket is the best way to preserve that faction on the campus. I be lieve that a faction will continue to exist as long as they are serving a purpose, when they cease to do that they will perish, and no amount of rotten politics will keep them alive. I believe in group living as a way to foster friendships and loy alty. As long as they can do this any good student government and faculty will keep them alive. By voting for whom we believe is a better candidate we ai’e trying to raise the standards of our Uni versify and with it the standards of our living groups. If we have to vote for a government that would blindly support a system without evaluating it we are blindly advo cating the system without realiz ing its faults and merits. I wanted to express my distaste for high pressure methods of influ encing voting. I wanted to say how much beneath us it is to tell our underclassmen “You vote thus and thus, or else you are not loyal to your party.” It is my sincere wish, no matter who is made stu dent body president, that this cam pus hold their future elections in a fashion creditable to our sup posed intelligence. Let us think for ourselves, to prepare for better citizenship and personal freedom of expression. Although we extol our own candi date, let us not personally insult and depreciate another. Let us put freedom to vote as we think above narrow views such as Greek vs. Independent. Only in that way can we elect the best people to stu dent government; only in that way can we improve the standards of our University. (Signed) GEHD HANSEN To the Editor: Instead of attacking the obvious in the Demerit Debunker, we note that a certain faction, “with long months of conniving, conspiring, aspiring, and naturally, a little doity woik in the back room . . . ” (to quote the debunker) have pub lished a poltroon's monstrosity as an unwise political device. It is unfortunate that Greek houses support a bloc which lends itself to the use of libelous and tawdry pamphleteering to forward its political aim. As members of Greek houses we are embarrassed and disgusted. SUE S. PIERRE, RUTH KAY COLLINS Ad Was Paid For All political advertising is “pay able in advance only.” The words “paid advertisement” were inad vertently omitted from the Inde pendent acl which appeared on page four of the Emerald, April 18. The money for this space, and for the cuts used, was placed in my hands on Friday, April 14. E. Edmunds, Business manager. students stationed here, and the one's I’ve met seem to all be pretty nice guys, but they don’t anywhere near go around. They tell me (1 haven’t bothered to count) that there are a little over four women to every man. ’Course it's not bad, to say the least, for the men stationed here, but it's kind of tough for the girls. They’re having ASUO election today. Remember how we all used to get excited just before the big day? It's just about the same only now the women do all the rushing around and ear-w hispering and even a little of the mud-slinging. There was a rally last night and some of the sororities held open house afterward. So you can see that some of the things are still going on as they used to. The Side’s still open and everybody still plays bridge down there after classes, but it’s not noisy and boisterous the wav it used to be. It’s funny, but the war’s,seemed to calm evervone down and made them a lot more serious. They tell me there aren't going to be any more big green teams out on the gridiron or the basketball court or the base ball diamond 'til this is all over and you guys can come back and help a little on volume when they sing "Mighty Oregon.” Yeah, the war's hit the campus, guys, but it's taking the w hole thing and still going on. And, somehow, now that I’ve been back and seen it all, 1 can tell you that you don’t need to worry. Somehow, I'm pretty doggone sure when we get back next year or the year after that or whenever it is, Oregon’s still gonna be the same. And I'm awfully sure that wdien we all are back and when | we can stand up and yell out "Mighty Oregon” again after that last-minute touchdown or basket, we're still going to be doggone proud, as we are now, to say, no matter where they send us or what happens, we're Oregon men, doggone it, we're Oregon men.—Pfc. G. Duncan \\ impress. Star Sings (Continued from tape one) Fopulares” by Obradors, and “Ef^ Despechado” by Jean Berger. Two arias from “The Daughter of the Regiment” by Donizetti form the third group. The first is a song of farewell to the soldiers, and the second is the song which Marie, tlie daughter of the regi ment, sings as a salute to the regi ment. Songs in the fourth group are “La Fontaine de Caraouet” by Le torey, "Quand Je Fus Pris au Pa vilion” by Hahn, “Le Nelumbo” by Moret, and “Chere Nuit” by Bachelot. In her final selections, Miss Sayao has chosen lighter melodies, “Stresa” and “The Little Shep herd’s Song” by Watts, “Think Me” by Alicia Scott, and two parodies, “Hey, Diddle, Diddle” and “Old King Cole” by Hughes. Milne Charnley will accompany Miss Sayao at the piano. The petite singer is billed as the leading soprano of the Metropoli tan opera association. She has been singing in the United States since 1936 and previously was a success ful singer in Europe and South America. Y O U R FURLOUGH DRESS should be chosen with much care and pride. T h i sj o- a y imaginative print so beautifully draped to make the most of your figure, solves your prob lem for the gay evenings on his spring furlough. KAILE'S 1044 Willamette RITZ BROTHERS in "Never a Dull Moment" — and — JOAN DAVIS in "Beautiful but Broke"